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This publication is a patriotic enterprise, 

therefore I request public-spirited men 

approving of my suggestions 

to become co-workers 

in an agitation 
for citizen government. 



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MARCH 1905, BY f5 k!^'CUDKI.L. 



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PREFACE. 

This publication is the result of the full 

awakening of my public conscience. 
One of the main incentives in this process, 
which caused me later on to act, was 
brought about by the despotic acts of 
a prominent civilian, and by the servile 

authorities of Cleveland. 
Moved by personal malice, this boss 
has compelled our city cind county 
governments and also our professional 
authorities (amongst which are men of 
national reputation) to abandon the logic- 
al plan for the grouping of our public 
buildings, and to use instead an unfit 
arrangement recommended by him. 

MUNICIPAL DEGENERACY. 

Cleveland's public square would be 
adorned with a statue of Kossuth, if my 
public protests two years ago had not 
aroused our slavonic citizens against the 
erection of such an unfit object in the 

very heart of our city. 
That occurence lowered my appreciation 
of my American citizenship to zero ; but 
it made me still more determined to re- 
main in the harness and to help all I 
could, to pull our republic out of the 

hole it has gotten into. 
In the following expression of my 
thoughts about the cause of the degener- 
ation of the republic and about the way 
of a thorough reform, I have made use 



of my architectural ability to express my- 
self pictorially, as well as in type. 
The illustrations are symbolic and would 
therefore require considerable study to 
be fully understood ; to avoid this, I 
add the following explanatory notes: 
The cover shows Prince Lucifer as the 
supreme representative of evil in a com- 
manding position, and as smart and 

watchful as in old paradisial days. 
He is adorned with America's starry 

crown of freedom and sovereignity. 
His shrewdness has become in the run 
of time - by the division of our people 
into savagely opposed political parties — 
the actual bearer of this precious ensign. 
The people's ensign of sovereignity since 
is a paper crown, shown below the 

star of empire. 
The empire's star has lost since this change 
occurred all its charming lustre. The mask 
with covered mouth indicates that the 
citizens have only a restricted opportunity 
to express themselves on account of the 

absence of an independent press. 
All what is beautiful on the tablet of 
page I symbolizes the republic of I 776, 
while the two crocodiles picture the 

modern republic of general grabbing. 
The coat of arms of Lucifer on page 2 
is as near to reality as can be imagined. 
A modern addition to it is the machine, 
of which the fly-wheel is shown in action. 
The horns of plenty and wmgs mean 



that he is always ready to bribe and also 

to shield his co-workers. 
The spiders, watching their victims, 

symbolize his and his helpers' greed. 
The monumental initial of page 3 sym- 
bolizes the unmovable rock upon which 
to place the unfounded columns of the 

republic. 
On the pediment is noticeable an owl, 
the symbol of wisdom, looking seriously 
down upon the doings of American men, 

civilians and officials. 
To the left can be seen in the distance a 

good shepherd guiding his herd. 
The sun, the morning star and the 
torches of the initial of page 9 symbolize 
the spiritual Hght of 1776, caused by 
the declaration of independence and the 

old republic. 
The twelve columns in view of the house 
of state, standing all upside down, repre- 
sent the reversed character of the repub- 
lic of indifferenrism, politicalism and 

$ism. 
The headlight of the tablet of page I 9 

is a prophecy for 1 925. 
The picture illustrates a cyclone of greed 

upon the then beautiful ship of state. 
A greedy monster of the Tweed type, 
accompanied by a kid-gloved competitor, 
are storming the then well guarded 
ship of state in vain, while under the 
search-light of the good Wardens. 




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COLUMNS UPON WHICH TO 
SUPPORT THE REPUBLIC 

AND THE ROCK UPON WHICH 
TO PLACE THE COLUMNS. 



In May 1 866 at the age of twenty-two 
I left my fatherland, Rhenish Prussia, 
to practice architecture in America, al- 
though I had no cause to complain of life 
at home. 



Five years after landing in New York 

City 1 severed all political relations with 

Royal Prussia and swore allegiance to 

the United States. 

During these years of my citizenship I 
have helped to vote in and out thousands 
of public servants to elevate the politic- 
al standard of the republic until I lo^ 
faith in success, in political parties, in 
platforms, and in the people. 

At that time I threw off all party bonds 
and concluded never to ca^ another vote 
again, unless the citizens should awaken 
and determine to change this nominal re- 
public into an actual republic. 

Since I became a citizen the republic has 
almost doubled its population, and has as- 
tonished the nations of the world by the 
phenomenal development of its territory, 
industries and educational in^itutions. 
Regarding good government, however, 
no astonishment has been reported from 

abroad nor at home. 
The noble public spirit of monarchical 
and early republican days has almost 
vanished, and the republic of the great 
founders is considered to-day to be only 

a theoretical possibility. 

The political parties have degenerated 

into professional organizations for profit, 

helpless masses of indolent, and a small 

minority of despairing citizens. 



The occasional efforts against the in- 
tolerable conditions by strong and con- 
scientious men like President Roosevelt, 
Governor Folk, Governor LaFollette, 
Mayor Weaver and the late Mayor Jones 
achieved temporal relief, but no more, 
because the real cause of the evil cannot 
be unrooted by a few determined men. 
The determined resistance w^hich they 
encounter paralyzes most of their efforts 
and forces them back into private life. 
A modified republic conducted by good 
politicians, as advocated by J. Lincoln 
Steffens, would be an impossibility, be- 
cause such men are scarce and seldom 

applicants for office. 
Organizations occasionally offer good 
politicians to the enraged people to de- 
feat opposing organizations ; but such oc- 
currences seldom happen, and when suc- 
cessful are usually of short duration and 
invariably fall short of what the people 

expected. 
Even if possible, such a republic would 
be undesirable, because it would not have 
the advantages of a real republic nor 

those of a constitutional monarchy. 
The low standard of our political life 
owes its existence to the low standard of 
public conscience among all classes of 
the citizens, and to their sharp separa- 
tion into political armies; thus separated 
they become political fanatics and tools 
of their commandants. 



Party loyalty, however, is losing ground, 
but the masses of voters ^ill consider 
themselves democrats or republicans, 
while they are in fad mere obedient 
masses of human voting herds. 

The originators of the public corruption, 
which prevails over our entire land, are 
largely the thousands of greedy citizens 
who approach public servants in all 
branches of the government, as bribers or 
seducers, to realize their criminal or un- 
fair desires. 
Without these bribers the public service 
would be comparatively free from dis- 
honesty. 

No people ever had an opportunity 
equal to ours to be an ideal community. 
Instead of this, we are a community of 
money makers, dissatisfied with our poli- 
tical life, but unable to enforce reforms. 
Our government in all its branches has 
become extremely political and partisan, 
and in addition to this also practically 
independent of its natural masters, the 
people. 

This ^ate of affairs has naturally devel- 
oped and will in time naturally end in a 
revolution, unless the wisdom and fore- 
sight of the men in power lead the 
republic on the right path. 

The man-of-war is as much of a practical 
possibility as the canoe, and so is the 
republic in its highest conception equally 



as practical a possibility as the crudest 
form of government under which men 

have ever lived. 
Therefore, if organized correctly funda- 
mentally, our republic would naturally 
rise from its deplorable condition to the 
same height of perfection which has 
been reached by all human occupations 
in the nineteenth century, administrated 
intelligently and organized correctly 

fundamentally. 
The popular machinery (the people) 
guiding our republic has never been under 
engineers' care and has therefore become 
rusty and unfit to perform public duties, 
while the same machinery under the 
direction of competent mechanics (true 
leaders) would have realized conditions 

considered Utopian to-day. 
All attempts to reform will be of little 
avail as long as the supreme fador in 
the government of the Republic, the 
citizens, are incapable of fulfilling all their 

political fundions. 
Politics ought to be a highly respected 
occupation and also a patriotic sport for 
many public spirited citizens, and the 
public service should be above suspicion 

of favoritism and dishonesty. 
Such a state of affairs could be brought 
about, if the political classes, who in fad 
would be benefited more by this than 
any other class, would be willing to add 



a non-partisan branch of conscience and 
education to the three existing funda- 
mental branches of the republic, to resist 
the attacks of the spirit of evil and to 
gradually retake the positions taken by 
this mighty prince of mischief since the 

establishment of the Republic. 
The existing forces of conscience and 
education working within our common- 
wealth for this purpose are not powerful 
and influential enough to establish a 
standard of public life above suspicion. 
It is the general belief that a non-partisan 
branch of government will drift in time 

into politics. 
It would drift that way if it were 
anchored in a political harbor on insecure 
bottom; but it could not, if it were 
anchored on safe bottom in a harbor 

of its own. 
A branch of government of conscience 
and education, founded upon the opposite 
principles upon which the three existing 
political fundamental branches of our 
government are founded, (non-partisan 
and independent of parties) would have 
no common interest with those branches. 
This fact justifies the conclusion that such 
a branch of government would be a 
mighty barrier against political abuses, 
and that the only companion for such a 
moral power could be the entire civilian 
population of our commonwealth. 

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he people's govern- 
ment as established 
by the authors of the 
declaration of inde- 
pendence IS a practi- 
cal possibility. 
Its failure has been caused by the ab- 
sence in the fundamental laws of the 
Republic of any provisions to educate and 
con^antly to remind the citizens of their 
public duties to nominate, eled and con- 
trol their public servants. 
The columns upon which to support the 
Republic are the people of the Wards, 
Villages and Townships throughout our 
great and beautiful land, and the rock, 
upon which to place these columns to 
enable them to perform their indispens- 
able public functions in the government 
of the Republic, should be appointed 
non-partisan Wardens located in all 
these districts and representing the peo- 
ple's government heralded to men on 
America's first Independent Day, 

A. D. 1776. 



Dignified temples of the republic should 
adorn all wards, villages and townships 
for the performance of all the public 
duties of the citizens, and also for meet- 
ings to be called by the Wardens of the 

Republic. 
One Warden and a temple located cen- 
trally would be sufficient for an entire 

group of villages and townships. 
The Wardens' duties toward the repub- 
lic and the people would be similar to 
the duties of the ministers of the gospel 
towards their creeds and congregations. 
The wardenship should be held by men 
of experience, wisdom and moderation, 
and their first appointments could be 

made by the judges of the counties. 
All appointments thereafter would have 
to be made by the Wardens themselves, 
subject only to the ratification of the 

people of the districts. 
All transaction within the temples would 
have to be under the entire control and 

jurisdiction of the Wardens. 

The temples should provide libraries and 

facilities for general information according 

to the requirements of the citizens of the 

different districts. 



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HERALD OF TRUTH. 

Regular daily newspapers should be 
published by the Wardens of all com- 
munities of our great commonwealth for 
the free discussion of public questions, 
and for the furnishing of uncolored and 

non-partisan news to the citizens. 
Such enterprises would from the start 

be self-supporting. 
An independent press could thus be es- 
tablished, based upon a rock of hereto- 
fore unknown solidity and integrity. 
I leave it to the reader's fancy to imagine 
what the results of the influence of such 
ideal instrum_ents of civilization would be. 
Public schools also should be m constant 
touch with the Wardens to prepare and 
educate the young citizens for the high 
functions which they will have to per- 
form in the future in the government of 

the Republic. 
These instructions to the young men 
should continue, until they have become 
of age, and should be compulsory, and 
the privilege to vote should not be 
granted to any citizen, regardless of birth- 
place or color, until he has passed a 



thorough examination by the Warden 

of his district. 
Communities thus politically educated 
would always have an abundance of ex- 
cellent men, from which to draw candi- 
dates for public office, and the public 
service of such communities would natur- 
ally be of a different standard than that 

which we are accustomed to. 
Such communities might own and oper- 
ate all public utilities with excellent 
results, but every attempt in this direction 
by politically unfit and indolent commu- 
nities would result in disaster. 



The division of the people into 
SAVAGELY opposed political parties 
has caused incalculable injuries, moral, po- 
litical and material, to the commonwealth. 
The CAUCUS, the supreme ELE- 
MENT of citizen government, has grad- 
ually degenerated into a meeting of pro- 
fessionals. 
Such a caucus is an anomaly and as 
such, if continued, will in time furnish 

the material for the republic's coffin. 
The acts of a caucus with less than a two- 
thirds' representation of the votes cast by 
the different parties in the preceding 

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national election of the districts should 
not be recognized by law, and the 
call and supervision of the caucus 
should be taken away from the parties 
and put in care of special government 
officials (Wardens),^ so as to encourage 
and enable the citizens to be present in 

these important meetings. 
Such a change would bring about a 
wonderful political transformation within 
a decade in every ward, village and 
township, blessed with a Warden and 

a temple of the Republic. 
The now shepherdless flocks of all these 
districts would within a decade have ral- 
lied around their Wardens and have be- 
come politically educated and willing 
and able to perform their public duties. 
During that time the political classes 
would naturally also pass through a par- 
tial process of angelization. 
The moral and educational influence of 
the numerous Wardens in cities would 
transform such municipalities into moral 
citadels of the true Republic, supported 
by the forts of the hon. Wardens of the 

surrounding villages and townships. 
A second independence day it would be 
for the people and a day of blessing for 
the politicians, on which a Supreme 
Warden of the United States, assisted 

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by Superior Wardens of all the States, 
would preside for the flr^ time over the 
national delegates of all the political 
parties assembled in convention and in a 
national temple to nominate candidates 
for president and vice-president of the 

Republic. 
From that day the people would have 
that for which the great revolutionary 
leaders and the people of the colonies 
rose against their royal master, the true 

Republic. 
The honorable Wardens being in con- 
stant contact with the citizens of their 
districts would draw caucuses never 

heard of before. 
Republicans, Democrats, Populists, So- 
cialists and Prohibitionists, assembled in 
their temples in caucus, presided over by 
their Wardens, to nominate candidates 
for officials, would present an exalted 
spectacle of civilization and republican 

government. 
Irregularities would thus be prevented 
and good tickets of all the parties secured 

for the coming combat of the voters. 
My suggestion embodies the element 
which is absolutely necessary to maintain 
the republic, but it will accomplish more, 
it will develop the same to a height of 
perfection considered impossible to-day, 

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Without this ever-acting educational and 
ethical force every free state will fall m 
time, becoming a victim of selfishness, 

despotism, and ignorance. 
The nature and interests of this new^ 
element, suggested to be incorporated 
into the republican state, are so unlike to 
the nature and interests of the political 
elements of the state, that a conspiracy 
betw^een the educational-ethical element 
and the three political elements against 
the interest of the people would be no 
more possible than to form a fusion be- 
tween water and oil, or than to associate 

the elephant and whale. 
After the introduction, this new element 
would be altogether independent from 
the political elements, executive, repre- 
sentative and judicial. 
The people in union with this new 
moral power would be fully competent 
to balance and control the political 
branches of the government and to 
make out of our government what it 
should be, a government of the people 
and controlled by the people. 



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PEOPLE'S great estate and 
the lofty, commodious and 
beautiful house, provided by 
our fathers for the State, has 
been abandoned and turned 
over to the servants, because 
the people became unfit and 
tired of housekeeping and 
caring for a home of their ow^n. 
From that time the republic has become 
a state of the servants, and the columns 
supporting the state have therefore been 
reversed and are novs^ standing, as sym- 
bolized in view of the house of state," 
dow^nside up, w^ith their once beautiful, 
now battered capitals exposed to abuse 
and in constant touch with the mud of 

the roadway. 
The solution suggested by me for this 
supreme problem of the union is simple 

and natural. 
It would in fact be an extension of the 
public schools to guard and lead the 

young into their full citizenship. 
My wishes are, that in time my endeavors, 
as at present outlined and illustrated m 
these few pages, may bear good fruit 

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and that they may awaken many of the 
millions of the intelligent citizens of the 
Union to such activity, that citizen gov- 
ernment w^ill become the supreme issue 

of our time. 
The evolution from the lowest prehistoric 
governments to the governments of our 
time justifies the conclusion, that the 
time is not distant, when evolution will 
exchange the imitation paper crown of 
our people — and for all ages — by 
America's starry crown of freedom and 

sovereignity. 
At that eventful time, sham democracy 
will be dead, but our star of empire 
will be second only to the star of 
Bethlehem, and the beautiful columns of 
our house of state will then again truly 
and beautifully symbolize the real and 
only columns, which can support the re- 
public founded by the immortal leaders 
and the people of the colonies during 
their struggle with King George. 

Greetings to all citizens, 
civilians and officials. 



Cleveland, O.. U. S. A. 

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BECAME UNFIT AND TIRED OF HOUSEKEKPING AND CAKTNG FOR A HOME OF THEIR OWN. FROM THAT TIME THE REPUBI,IC HAS BECOME A STATE OF THE SERVANTS, AND THE COLUMNS SUPPORTING THE STATE 

HAVE THEREFORE BEEN REVERSED AND ARE NOW STANDING, AS SYMBOLIZED IN VIEW OF THE HOUSE OF STATE, DOWNSIDE UP, WITH THEIR ONCE BEAUTIFUL, NOW BATTERED CAPITALS EXPOSED TO AUUSE 

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